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Characteristics of microbial community of soil subjected to industrial production of antibiotics
Ecosystems worldwide are exposed to pollutants connected to the industrial production of pharmaceuticals. The objective of this study was to study the composition and characteristics of the soil microbial comm...
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Effect of the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac on lipid composition of bacterial strain Raoultella sp. KDF8
The strain Raoultella sp. KDF8 was cultivated on three sources of carbon and energy, glycerol, ethanol and diclofenac, for periods of time ranging from 24 to 72 h. Using thin-layer chromatography, nine classes of...
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Lipidomic Analysis of Lower Organisms
Current lipidomics is a modern method of analysis of lipids, important cell constituents found in all microbial cells and fulfilling vital roles as structural components of cell membranes, cell energy storage ...
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Metabolic profiling of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans race 2 in dual cultures with biocontrol agents Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Trichoderma harzianum
There are increasing efforts to identify biocontrol-active microbial metabolites in order to improve strategies for biocontrol of phytopathogens. In this work, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans was confronte...
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Isolation and identification of siderophores produced by cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria are one of the most successful and oldest forms of life that are present on Earth. They are prokaryotic photoautotrophic microorganisms that colonize so diverse environments as soil, seawater, an...
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Potential of the strain Raoultella sp. KDF8 for removal of analgesics
The bacterial strain KDF8 capable of growth in the presence of diclofenac and codeine analgesics was obtained after chemical mutagenesis of nature isolates from polluted soils. The strain KDF8 was identified as R...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Lipidomic Analysis of Lower Organisms
Current lipidomics is a modern method of analysis of lipids, important cell constituents found in all microbial cells and fulfilling vital roles as structural components of cell membranes, cell energy storage ...
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Identification and Characterization of Phospholipids with Very Long Chain Fatty Acids in Brewer’s Yeast
Yeast lipids and fatty acids (FA) were analyzed in Saccharomyces pastorianus from seven breweries and in the dietary yeast supplement Pangamin. GC–MS identified more than 30 FA, half of which were very-long chain...
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Open AccessNon-invasive and invasive diagnoses of aspergillosis in a rat model by mass spectrometry
Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis results in 450,000 deaths per year and complicates cancer chemotherapy, transplantations and the treatment of other immunosuppressed patients. Using a rat model of experimental...
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Potential of Pichia pastoris for the production of industrial penicillin G acylase
This study deals with the potential of Pichia pastoris X-33 for the production of penicillin G acylase (PGAA) from Achromobacter sp. CCM 4824. Synthetic gene matching the codon usage of P. pastoris was designed f...
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Erratum to: Penicillin G acylase from Achromobacter sp. CCM 4824
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Penicillin G acylase from Achromobacter sp. CCM 4824
Penicillin G acylase from Achromobacter sp. (NPGA) was studied in the enzymatic synthesis of β-lactam antibiotics by kinetically controlled N-acylation. When compared with penicillin acylase of Escherichia coli (...
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Effect of the amino acid substitution in the DNA-binding domain of the Fur regulator on production of pyoverdine
The ferric uptake regulator gene (fur), its promoter region and Fur box of pvdS gene involved in siderophore-mediated iron uptake system were sequenced in the parent strain Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and in the
